From: gsg@sellnext.com
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Subject: Your "Xmess Day" [sic] assignment ...New York Times article - Immigrants Go From Farms to Jails, and a Climate of Fear Settles In


It is horrible. It is horrible.

But I am not sure it is going to be such an issue once the money is worthless.

Interesting coincidence that this coming Tuesday Marie Dion Gevisser and her 17+ year old daughter Danielle are leaving for a 7 day trip to "Oregan" [sic] where in return for board and lodging they will be working the fields of an organic "vegtable" [sic] farmer who also has chickens and bee hives.

Ironic that one of the farmers in this NYX Internet edition feature story is a director of the Federal Reserve Bank’s Buffalo branch, the Federal Reserve Bank, you will recall, a strategic "building block" of THE DIAMOND INVENTION that took root one year prior to the outbreak of World War I, the first diamond studded-oil war.

Not to mention yet again how J.P. Morgan "saved the day" in 1907 thanks to his "friendship" with the DAAC detailed sufficiently in the beginning of Chapter 13, THE DIAMOND MIND of Hollywood blockbuster author Edward Jay Epstein's extraordinarily easy to read book but only for "independant thinkers" [sic], i.e. those having "come of age" who have chosen wisely not to let anyone beginning with their poorly conditioned parents with "blackened hands" co-opt-corrupt them to be even more corrupt and insensitive leading to each successive generation having increasing difficulty keeping track of their lies from day one. 

When first reading this Nazi Germany reminder story to repeat until this FUCKING REAL story is TATOOED IN TO YOUR "SCAL", blood remember is not so much "thicker than water" as it is "blood is as thick as experience", the first question that will come to your mind when realizing why when I communicate next with Mr. Thomas Stephens Esq. of the DeBeers-Anglo American Cartel sponsored laws firm of Bartlit-Beck specializing in defending Wall Street "players" such as is Citicorp Venture Corporation specializing in "management friendly" i.e. "shareholder hostile" takeovers I wont have any difficult explaining why I am now back to being "LIGHT" the way most people have known me since I began spending time in heavily corrupt Del Mar, California.

 
Not to mention you "begining" [sic] to feel much like Dr. John K. Pollard so high and mighty when compared to the business-personal practices of the "it" and why it is that medical "practicioners" [sic] in the U.S. get paid so handsomely while more than 95% of Americans are in worse both mental and physical condition than the Brits who are in nowhere near as good mind-body shape as the Chinese making up some 25% of the world's population fueling the world's economy with so much of their vast country in the most pristine condition thanks to China's leadership learning so much from having come top at our schools and universities from the mistakes of those who have ruled with nothing more than brute force and heavy mob "pyschology" [sic].

 

To mention little of what now will come to your mind is Chapter 13, THE DIAMOND MIND of THE DIAMOND INVENTION so carefully crafted principally for the western world money grabbing brain dead who cannot despite it being the most fascinating book ever written describing how it has come to pass that the brainwashed are so brainwashed that they cannot read the entire book in "one sitting" for it leaves well before completion a feeling of hopelessness for the selfish of the selfish while empowered with enough knowledge NOT TO DARE OPEN their big fricken mouths to anyone while being so judgmental towards the ignorant who haven’t quite figured out how best to grab more than their fair share of the graft-spoils of diamond studded-oil wars where war is one enormous money maker for those sitting in the "pound seats" having used the "Money Power" to accumulate the necessary resources that are "bartered for" in war when "money becomes no object" FOR THE SIMPLE reason these STILL IGNORANT people haven’t all yet begun to read this most fascinating book that explains how easily humans are bought and paid for with worthless monies.

 

To mention in passing the EXTRORDINARY guilty that will now and until Kingdom Come which is now be felt by those "armed with" this Knowledge-Light-Information who FAIL to share with everyone they meet begining with family members, friends and relatives my insight and analysis of the important events of the day.

 

The next question after reading very carefully this horrible of horrible stories is how come some farmers are not using illegals, how can they survive?

 

The answer you know can be found right in the article that talks about the negative impact to pharmaceutical companies now "suffering" from the rounding up of "illegal" immigrants.

 

To mention little of mostly brain dead patients when entering a medical doctors office and thinking that most of their "revenue stream" comes from just the kickbacks the "physcians" [sic] get from the scantily dressed "pharmeceutical" [sic] reps without bothering to think about all the the nonsense studies the pharmaceutical companies catering only to the "filthy rich" pay to the medical doctors under the guise of "research" which often takes no more than 15 minutes a year of a poorly paid secretary’s time to fill out a report that results in the case of many a cardiologist that you and I both know very well receiving a kickback of some $6,000.

 

To mention in passing all the "unaccounted for" fringe benefits including insurance companies "turning a blind eye" to medical insurance fraud and the junkets to places like Las Vegas which include of course flings with very savvy DAAC prostitutes.

 

You don’t need to be reminded why the heads of the DAAC did not want me to "witness" first hand the "coming and goings" of the Hasidic-Black Hatters on 47th who serve principally as "intelligence gatherers" versus money launderers. 

The next question that comes to mind when reading this very important and timely NYX still featured story in their Internet edition is why hasn’t one "stand up" Mexican, Costa Rican, "Eucadorian" [sic] and the such DECLARed OUT LOUD to all the the "illegal" farm workers doing the work "legals" not only bought and paid for with "fictitous" [sic]-worthless DeBeers-Dollars don’t want to do but have figured out how to "beat the system" by being like you part of the pencil-button pushing white collar laborers making out like bandits without having to sweat even an eyelid, "DON'T SHOW UP FOR WORK FOR JUST ONE WEEK!"

 

But you now STILL smile "from ear to ear" mumbling to yourself, "These wetbacks, thank God, depend on day to day wages!", so arrogantly STILL BELEIVING that it is all about "legal" Americans while not "rili going" [sic] to work the farms and get paid next to nothing.

 

It making no difference what bad, fat and ugly "legal" Americans pay or don’t pay at the cash register since YOU CONTINUE TO BELEIVE that America has not only the BIG GUNS but those "troublemakers" will end up in jail, dead or simply "serving and protecting our country".

 

NOW, THIS INSTANT read time and again this one very important section as I do my best to the get the very corrupt and inept Israeli government to hire our most brilliant and honorable former Minister of Defense Donald Rumsfeld who of course is not as well schooled as me in the all important subjects of Economics-Finance, History and Politics:


“The farmers have got their view, but they’re shortsighted — they’re not looking at the country as a whole,” said Mr. Woodhams, who notes that he is a registered Democrat and the son of a Dutch immigrant farmer. “The farmers say they can’t get labor. Well, if they paid a decent wage, maybe they could.” 

 

So very "shortsighted" is your Nazi-Socialist Democratic Party increasingly one and the same as the cowardly Republicans but who remain for the most part opposed to big "goverment" [sic] dictatorships.

 

So easy to point fingers at Mexicans who cannot defend themselves whose leadership you and your kind have done the marvelous job of co-opting-corrupting.

 

Time you did take it very personally this coming "Xmess" [sic] day!

 

How DARE anyone AWARE OF THEIR heartbeat think it is "mighty fine" to just deflect the problem when saying "illegals" take advantage of "our system" of what exactly?

 

A system of welfare recipients sitting in the "pound seats" because of our BIG GUN, Regime Change-Monroe Doctrine-Gunboat diplomacy foreign policy?

 

What about doctors taking more than their fair share?

 

What about the educational system that ensures the next generation don’t get to search for the truth?

 

What more can I say? 

Ps - I am using Marie's laptop computer, still not very comfortable with the built-in keyboard, as she sits some 3 feet away sewing a patch in to her multi-colored sweater-jacket that I happened to burn on the fireplace at our Stone Home,,, Marie just questioning me that the gun you see in this hyperlink below has the safety lock on.

 

http://nextraterrestrial.com/pdf/bonnie_IMG.gif

 

Now my so "sentious" [sic] wife who continues to threaten me with "divorse" [sic] if I write about our sex lives is asking me whether the knitted green patch, "looks weird"?

 

Currently she is wearing a knee high skirt when "sitted" [sic] cross-legged in the one of a pair "awsomely" [sic] comfortable Italian reclining chair looking out at the marvelous day here at the Cliff House, MDG now telling me,

 

"Gary, come on, we are leaving in 3 minutes...You have 10 days of no interruption...So if you cannot enjoy the last few minutes of time you have with me, then I guess I should go, 2 minutes, and I am leaving in 2 minutes..."

 

So now I know I have 3 more days to write my forthcoming book, THE HISTORY OF MONEY CREATION AND ITS FUTURE!....

 

Don't be shy to let me know what edits are needed prior to me getting my "trusted friends" who still don’t communicate with me via telephone or email to begin posting this up at Light-G-d-speed on to the Internet.


Immigrants Go From Farms to Jails, and a Climate of Fear Settles In
Mike Groll for The New York Times, right top; Kevin Rivoli for The New York Times


Clockwise from left top: Harvesting cabbage in Elba; Debbie and Rodney Brown on their dairy farm in Clifton Springs; Gerardo Gomez, visiting the Browns’ dairy farm. He faces deportation, but refused to testify against them, saying they were good to him; and Victor Feria Reyes, with his daughter, Elenita, discussing farmworkers’ situation.

By NINA BERNSTEIN
Published: December 24, 2006
ELBA, N.Y. — A cold December rain gusted across fields of cabbage destined for New York City egg rolls, cole slaw and Christmas goose. Ankle-deep in mud, six immigrant farmworkers raced to harvest 120,000 pounds before nightfall, knowing that at dawn they could find immigration agents at their door.

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Migrant workers on the way to work at the Morse Farm, above, in Branchport, N.Y., were recently arrested.
The farmer who stopped to check their progress had lost 28 other workers in a raid in October, all illegal Mexican immigrants with false work permits at another farm here in western New York. Throughout the region, farm hands have simply disappeared by twos and threes, picked up on a Sunday as they went to church or to the laundry. Whole families have gone into hiding, like the couple who spent the night with their child in a plastic calf hutch.

As record-setting enforcement of immigration laws upends old, unspoken arrangements, a new climate of fear is sweeping through the rural communities of western and central New York.

“The farmers are just petrified at what’s happening to their workers,” said Maureen Torrey, an 11th-generation grower and a director of the Federal Reserve Bank’s Buffalo branch whose family owns this field and more than 10,000 acres of vegetable and dairy farms.

And for the first time in years, farmers are also frightened for themselves. In small towns divided over immigration, they fear that speaking out — or a disgruntled neighbor’s call to the authorities — could make them targets of the next raid and raise the threat of criminal prosecution.

Here where agriculture is the mainstay of a depressed economy, the mainstay of agriculture is largely illegal immigrant labor from Mexico. Now, more aggressive enforcement has disrupted a system of official winks, nods and paperwork that for years protected farmers from “knowingly” hiring the illegal immigrants who make up most of their work force.

“It serves as a polarizing force in communities,” said Mary Jo Dudley, who directs the Cornell Farmworker Program, which does research. “The immigrant workers themselves see anyone as a potential enemy. The growers are nervous about everyone. There’s this environment of fear and mistrust all across the board.”

In a recent case that chilled many farmers, federal agents trying to develop a criminal case detained several longtime Hispanic employees of a small dairy farm in Clifton Springs, and unsuccessfully pressed them to give evidence that the owners knew they were here illegally.

Since raids began to increase in early spring, arrests have netted dozens of Mexican farm workers on their way to milk parlors, apple orchards and vineyards, and prompted scores more to flee, affecting hundreds of farms. Some longtime employees with American children were deported too quickly for goodbyes, or remain out of reach in the federal detention center in Batavia, N.Y., where immigrants are tracked by alien registration number, not by name.

Federal officials say events here simply reflect a national commitment to more intensive enforcement of immigration laws, showcased in raids in December at Swift & Company meatpacking plants in six states.

The effort led to a record 189,924 deportations nationally during the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, up 12 percent from the year before, officials said, and 2,186 deportations from Buffalo, up 24 percent. It includes prosecuting employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants, better cooperation with state and local law enforcement, and new money from Congress for more agents, more detention beds and quicker deportations.

In small towns like Sodus, Dresden and Elba, where a welcome sign declares that the population of 2,369 is “Just Right,” some residents quietly approve of the crackdown. They are unhappy with the growing year-round presence of Mexicans they consider a drain on public services, resentful of the political clout of farmers, or concerned about the porous borders denounced nightly on CNN by Lou Dobbs. Others are torn, praising Mexican families but worried that some farmers exploit them.

Farm lenders and lobbyists warn of economic losses that will be measurable in unharvested crops, hundreds of closed farms and revenues lost in the wine tourism of the Finger Lakes. On the other side, supporters of stringent enforcement expect savings in schools and hospitals, and a boost to low wages as the labor market tightens.


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The harvest of fear may be harder to chart, but it is already here. It can be felt in Sodus, where an October raid left a dozen children without either parent for days, and in vineyards near Penn Yan, where a grower of fine cabernet grapes reluctantly permits a worker to sleep in a car, hidden in the vines that he prunes. Everywhere, rumors fly about why one place was raided and not another, feeding suspicion and a fear of speaking out.

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For Rodney and Debbie Brown, the dairy farmers in Clifton Springs who lost 6 of their 10 employees to immigration arrests, the experience began like an episode of “The Twilight Zone.”

When no workers showed up at 6:30 a.m. on Aug. 28 to help milk 580 waiting cows, Mr. Brown went to the farmhouse where most of their Hispanic employees lived, only to find it eerily empty. Some of the workers had been with the Browns for more than seven years.

All of a sudden they were all gone,” Mrs. Brown said. “It was very scary.”

Later, the Browns learned that agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement had been waiting for the workers in their driveway at dawn with state troopers, and had whisked them to the 450-bed detention center in Batavia, where there were 3,094 admissions this year. Like an estimated 650,000 immigrants in New York State and some 11 million nationally, the employees were in the United States illegally; the permits and Social Security cards they had shown to the Browns were fake.

What prompts such raids is rarely disclosed. But federal officials have said that they pursue tips from the public, adding to uneasy speculation about private vendettas or political retaliation. Such talk abounded in Sodus, for example, after an October raid at Marshall Farms, a large breeder of ferrets and dogs for pharmaceutical companies. The consensus, several residents said, was that a disgruntled American employee had called in the complaint.

More than 18 workers, many of them longtime employees with children in Sodus schools or day care, were summoned by name to the office from their jobs cleaning animal cages, and taken away — the men to Batavia, the women to unspecified county jails.

“A lot of the employees down there were very heartbroken to see the women walk out with shackles around their feet and handcuffs chained around their waists, crying,” said Cliff DeMay, a large private labor contractor who supplies agricultural businesses in seven states with workers, and accepts their papers at face value — part of a system that has allowed deniability to everyone but the illegal worker.

“The I.C.E., they’ve always picked up people on complaints,” he added. “It’s not the Border Patrol or I.C.E.’s fault. It’s the fault of our damn politicians.”

But Mr. DeMay also echoed a widespread view that those who criticized the raids were asking for trouble.

Others, including the Farm Bureau, pointed to the unusual intensification of the dairy investigation after Mr. Brown was quoted in a Sept. 11 Associated Press account. Michael W. Gilhooly, a spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, responded that raids were “carefully planned” and “result from investigative leads and intelligence.”

Mrs. Brown, 46, said she was summoned to the federal building in Rochester and questioned for an hour and a half by immigration agents who threatened to subpoena her phone records. Federal prosecutors then brought felony charges against the workers for using fake Social Security numbers to get their milking jobs.

But rather than turn against their former employers in exchange for leniency, as prosecutors wanted, the Mexican men pleaded guilty to felonies and accepted deportation, said Michael Bersani and Anne Doebler, lawyers who represented them in immigration court. Government lawyers would not discuss the case.

Neighboring farmers, who helped the Browns milk, seemed shaken. “A lot of them say, ‘We should write letters to the editor, but we don’t want to draw attention to ourselves,’ ” Mrs. Brown said. “Everyone is very panicky.”

Some have a different perspective. Ray Woodhams, 58, a Sodus resident who works at a Rochester hospital that was sued by Hispanic employees who were barred from speaking Spanish, said he was glad to read of the arrests.

“The farmers have got their view, but they’re shortsighted — they’re not looking at the country as a whole,” said Mr. Woodhams, who notes that he is a registered Democrat and the son of a Dutch immigrant farmer. “The farmers say they can’t get labor. Well, if they paid a decent wage, maybe they could.” The Browns, echoing many farmers, counter that they have found no one steady to fill the vacant jobs.

Many labor advocates, after years of fighting farmers for wage and hour protections, find themselves in an uneasy alliance with their old foes.

“Suddenly everybody’s interest is the same: Save the lives of the migrants,” said John Ghertner, who is on the board of Rural and Migrant Ministry, an interfaith advocacy group. “From the farmers’ perspective, so they have labor. From our point of view, human rights.”

The smaller the farm and the more settled the work force, the more wrenching the arrests. Or so it seemed as friends gathered around the wife of a vineyard worker arrested in Yates County four days earlier, on his way to prune vines he had tended for a decade. His three children, 14, 11 and 2, are all American-born.

His wife, weeping, described how the agents who had taken him and two others into custody on the road circled back to the house to try to take her, too. As the agents banged at the door and tried to open it, she hid in the bedroom with the 2-year-old, she said, and put her hand over his mouth when he started to cry.

Victor Feria Reyes, the state-licensed labor contractor who had dispatched the father and the others to the vineyard, said that throughout the Finger Lakes, his crews were down by half. “A lot of people hate us,” he said as his daughter Elenita, 8, leaned close. “They just say, ‘Take them away.’ ”

The owner of the vineyard, who had lost three of his five workers to immigration arrests, called them “part of my family,” but begged not to be named. “I’m afraid of retaliation,” he said.